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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-04-15
Sporting News.
There will he a Shooting Match at Port
Tobacco, on
Friday, April Goth.

In which all Southern Maryland teams are
expected to enter for the following prizes:
LIST match. For fine single harness with
shot guns at pigeons or balls. 2nd match.
For purse Of $40 with rifles at target
Ord match. - For purse Of $lOC with shot
guns at live pigeons.
For further particulars address j. f. Norris,
Pert Tobacco, Charles Co., Nd. ap Set
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Chicago counts eleven of the thirty
seven o.eomargarine factories in this
country.
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Order Of Publication.
No. 68S Equity Dock.;

In tie Circuit Court for Charles county
Sitting in Equity.
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odward n LOthrcp's Column.
ORDERING
GOODS BY
NJ a L l..
award - LOthrcps Column.

THIS mode of shopping has not only be-
come extremely popular with the pop
ulaiion in the more remote cities aud
towns, but has also demonstrated the
fact that it IS both safe and an exceed
ingly satisfactory method Of purchas-
ing. as you secure the very latest
styles AMI newest fabrics at prices
which can only be named by firms do
ling large business and running an
extensive Mail Order Department such
las ours.
t living sill further perfected our system
and with additional facilities for an in
telligent ful6lment of every commits
SION, We ara better prepared than ever
to execute all order entrusted to us.
Our Quarterly Catalogue. The Capital
City Visitor" is now ready, aud we
shall be glad to mail it free to any one.
upon request, who thinks that mutual
advantages may cnsuc.
| contains clear and concise compia-
ton Of our stock. width, prices, sty les
&c, also necessary information with
reference to Shopping by Mail" nu-
merous illustrations, and much inter
csiing reading matter.
We attend to all orders upon the day re-
ceiyed We refund the money it goods
sent are not satisfactory We send
samples, with price, upon request. =
We go to any reasonable length to
pl, ase.
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James A. Su it'll, Plaintiff, VS. Andrew G..
Smith, Robert knight, Samuel d. Reed,
Woodberry Wheeler, Thomas f. Young,
Edward g. Wheeler and Frank Hume.
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Thomas c. Price & CO.
Commission Merchants,
FOR THE SALE or
Tobacco, Grain, Wool

COUNTRY PRODUCE.
ITO s. Charles St Baltimore Nc
Leo II. Hayden, recent Tobacco Inspector
gives his personal attention To inspections &c
Quick sales and prompt returns. Coasign-
ments solicited.
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Quality No. 3, soc per yard.
Quality No. 4, 75c per yard
Quality No. 3, SIZE per yard.
Quality No ,, 90 per yard.
Quality No, |, 25 per ward.
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LADIES.
y0U cas- SOW Buy
Staple SeaSOnabIe Goods
AZ Half Their Value.
Read Carefully Each.
we Will Sell.
$50 dozen Ladies' Linen Cape Collars at
SC. These you usually pay l2Ie for.
$50 dozen Ladies' White Ghemsettes, all
sizes. i2lc. Goods never sold by anybody
less than 25c.
$4,000 pairs Suspendees, in white or colors
at lie choice Goods among these worth
from 15c to 4Oc.
Ladies Fancy Strips Hose l2Ic; worth
zoe.
200 dozen Children's Solid CoIored Hose,
l9c per pair.
500 dozen Children's Solid Colorei Ribbed
Hose, sc per pair; pair for 25c.
$50 dozen Ladies Solid CoIored Full Reg
uar Made Hose, 25c per pair usually sold
for 37lc.
Is 900 yards Maline Yelling for Sc a veil.
This is all silk Yelling and in every conceiv-
able and desirable shade
20 900 yards Check Nainsook at &c. Goods
usually rettiled at l2le
5000 pairs Ladies Lisle Thread Gloves, all
sizes 1z4c per pair; psGal, sold at 25c.
1000 dozen Ladies Colored Bordcrrd Hem
stitched Iiandkerciies, sc each.
$4,000 yards White Lawn at SC per yard
Every yard perfect; every yard well beached
worth g. the world over.
80 600 yards Fine Satteens at l2lc. Sold
everyw bcre for 25c. These goods are ever
for superior to the goods ". made such a fu
rore with week ago Surprising in beaut,
and design any French goods yet shown.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
POLITICAL MAYHEMIsM.

Ex-P observation-disclosures Hatton Roundly
Denounces Republican Organ Grinders.
An advertisement copied from a
Washington paper offering cash pay
ment to any one who will secure an
appointment for the author of the adj
vertisement in one of the departments
is going the rounds of the Republican
press, accompanied by the partisan in
tlmation that ''such is, reform under a
Democratic Administration" This is
very old chestnut, and one that was
frequently dubbed when the Republic
ans were in power. The Mail is
nothing if not strongly Republican. It
believes in making every legitimate
point that can be made against the
Democratic Administration, but there
is nothing fair or smart in trying to
hold the Administration responsible
for the desperate means employed by
starving and struggling men to secure
an office. The advertisement Offering
pay for an Office does not imply that a
place could be secured in that way
now any more than it did when such
notices appeared in the local press at
Washington when the Republicans
were in power. In politics, as in all
other matters, good square ticks above
the belt count for more than be-
low the belt shots or political mayhem
ism. Better tote fair, brethren. CHI
raQo Nal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
FACTS TERsELY sTATEp.

The President, by his recent land
decision, has virtually thrown open to
the farmers a territory as large as
the tract covered by the States Of
Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connect
lcut' New York. Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware. y Times
Already under the Republican
party there have been squandered on
greedy corporations nearly 800, Ooo, 600
acres Of the public domain, making
over 1000 square miles, more than
the total area OF all the New England
and Middle States and Maryland, Ohio
and. Indiana combined.
Patriot. ?
The Southern Leader. q colored
organ published at Jacksonville. Fla.
prints some encouraging figures as
to the progress of the race in educa-
ton and the acquisition of property.
and says: 1.-The elevation of the race
depends upon its self-development and
not On the success Of any political
party. No outside force, however
powerful, can do the work of self-help.
A dependent race merits only con-
tempt in the world, but self-deyelop.
ment and manly achievements win
honor, respect and admiration"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
Madame Missions Husband.

Count de Casa de Miranda. now the
lawful husband of Christine Nilsson. is
the son of lady who was governess
to the late Queen Mercedes, and who
was raised to the rank of Marchioness
by King Alfonso. The Count a good
many years ago led Boulevardier sort
of life in Paris. After the Spanish Re-
public collapsed he was en- rapport
with the Spanish Embassy. His par
ticular function was to work the press.
Those journalists who were in rela-
tons with him found him the pink Of
obliging courtesy, and he was in a
good many instances bon can,arade.
He could be Tartar when he liked,
but he preferred not to be one often.
II my memory does not deceive me he
was arrested in the winter Of the siege
as French spy by the Prussians and
taken to Versailles to be Intercepted
by Bismarck in person. The terrible
chancellor made a conquest of him =
London Truth.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
Turtles at Key West.

From all along the coast, during the
full moons of May, June and July, par
ties go out to the keys and watch for
the coming up Of the turtles. BY hun
dreds all along the coast they come
crawling up, dig holes IN the beach
and lay their eggs. Carefully they
cover them up. then start seward.
Happy turtles if they reach the waters
edge. Oftener the atcher rushes out.
marks the nest, turns the turtle on his
back, where he lies helpless, and then
seeks Others. Night after night, on al.
most every key, this goes on. The
eggs are, some say-I detest them
fine eating, SO is also the meat. In al.
most every house near the coast during
the season one sees great piles Of these
round, chalky, paper-shelled eggs, and
is offered cake and bread made from
them. ad nauseam. Boston Tran
ScTiDt.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
FOOLISH NEGROES.

H"sty Action OF Colored Parttsans Who
Pay No Hood to Historical Facts.
The colored citizens at Washington
VINO gave partisan turn to their
Emancipation Day celebration were
not as wise in their generation as
are their brethren in many other
parts of the country. The orator OF
the day "arraigned the President for
not interfering when outrages were
committed at the South" and de-
nounced the negro who accepts Office
from the present Administration as "a
Judas"
This is illogical to the point of folly.
What has the Republican party done
for the negro since emancipation Did
not three Republican Presidents in
succession-Hayes, Garfield and Ar.
thur-''refrain from interfering for
the protection of colored men
at the South? A Re publican
President withdrew the Federal
troops from that section. A Re-
publican Supreme Court nullified the
Ciyll-Kights law. The last Republican
President, ''stalwart'' at that, never
once mentioned the "outrages'' or re.
ferred to the South as section reauir-
ing Federal supervision. These out
RACES. in fact, have steadily diminished
under the policy of leaving the con-
troll Of home affairs to the Southern
States. In no two years since the
close OF the war have there been fewer
race troubles in the South than since
the Inauguration Of a. Democratic
President.
AS matter of fact and of law. the
Federal Government has no more
power to interfere in the administra.
ton of justice in the Southern
States than it has to take control of
the Weeks case in Brooklyn or the
Railway inquest in New Jersey. Nor
is there any occasion for its doing SO in
one case more than in the others. &. In
telligent and sensible negroes know
that the worst thing that can happen
to their race is to have the color-line
maintained in politics at the South.
And they have become tired of acting
as unrewarded hewers of wood and
drawers Of water for Republican nest
feathering politicians.-N. y World Sd
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
An Inveterate Spec uIator.

An agent called on Dakota man,
saying: you have been recommended
to me as a prominent citizen, and
have patent ice-cream freezer here
which I would like to sell you. It
is
Don't want it.
ut is something new and-''
Tell you l wouldn't have it"
But / m sure you would
Wouldn't; no use for it; never eat
lce-cream.''
But it only costs $3.50, and per.
haps-"
mo perhaps about it, wouldn't take
your freezer as a gift"
"Well, | have another scheme here.
| am selling chances for drawing ON
the same freezer. There are one hum
dred tickets at dollar apiece
"Well, that's more like it-put nv
name down for two tickets. This is
speculation, and always 90 in on any
thing OF that kind DAKOTA Bel.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
!. PITH AND POINT.

Followers sometimes feel the want
OF leader; sometimes a leader feels
the want of great lot of followers.
1t is never too late to mend; but a
man can not expect to have button
sewed on much after midnight.
"A good quality of celluloid is now
being made from potatoes Soon bull
lets will be made from the railway
sandwich.
There are great many windy
patriots who mistake the echo of theip,
own tongue-clatter for the voice al
fame. = Washington Hatchet.
In the Alps. -Guide-..If the ladies'
will only stop talking, your honor may
hear the roaring of the waterfall across
the valley.-Fkegende Blatter.
1t does not change the weather to
complain about it. but there is little
satisfaction IN good vigorous kick
once in while. -Elmira Gazette.
Their influence goes on forever
So when great man dies,
For years beyond our ken
Lies on the paths OF mon.
-Longtellou. !
1t is possible now to construct a
sewing machine in one minute, or, let
us say, in one thirtieth of the time it
takes to find a needle when man
wants shirt button sewed on and is
late for his train.
Mrs. Grundy says: Boys now, to
a great extent, take the places Of men
in New York society" Mrs. Grundy
must not complain, since boys were
created for just this very thing. SD
Adams Messenger.
If there is an instance of sublime
faith more striking than that shown by
a bald-headed man when he buys a
hair restorative from bald-headed
barber, our attention has never been
called to it. Philadelphia Call.
We have lawyer in this county
who. several years ago, in the course
OF plea, said: Gentlemen Of the
jury, you should bear in mind the
Lords Prayer, which says, Do unto
others as you would that they should
do unto YOU "-Cooperstown Repub.
AGan.
They were playing an old fashioned
game and having just the best kind Of
time. when just as pretty Miss Tat
ting cried out, Button. button, who's
got the buttone" old Marriedman cast
gloom over the game by drawing
nail from his pocket and saying, "Here
it is. Burdettc.
Steel guns of the largest calibre
will only stand two hundred rounds;
after that that they must be con.
demned. A plain man OF ordinary
calibre will stand from eighteen thou.
sand to twenty thousand rounds. This
illustrates natures superiority over
art. San Francisco Examiner.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25

| POA encourages VIC SuChcT (VlC-
TINY to put his money into fraudulent
schemes, and the ''steerer" picks up
men on the street and leads them to
places where they can get "skinned.
The victims pocket book is his death
err" and though the crook who
''nicks'' the suckers Leather
steals but trash, he who would steal
his "monekas'' steals that which is
dearer to him than life itself. This is
a crooks paraphrase of a famous
Shakeperean passage.
The chief person of any assembl age
is the "main guy or perhaps the
"head finger" The "office" is warm
ing of any kind to look out. 1t used to
be kind OF clearing of the throat to
spit, but that was worn out. It would
attract thiefs attention almost any
time. A cough will do as we'll. When
''office" is given and answered, then
the one giving it knows that the other
has 'tumbled," and that some one is
''onto Them" If he doesn't tumble he
is liable to get "sloughed up'-i. e.,
put in prison. Cheese" means stop.
Cheese patter," stop talking Cheese
weeden," or "nixey weeden," stop
talking slang. "Patter FASH" was the
old time for talking slang, but it has
died out. The burglars tools are
'nippers, or ''tongs," or outsiders
for opening doors from the outsi de, the
Jimmy" kind of bar when long or
chisel when short, to pry open Gig
gers" doors or ''glazes," windows, or
''peter'' trunk. The off Ger who
goes with crooks to get their secrets
is pigeon" but doesn't generally
front up" until long after the .gang
has been pinched" and they are
brought up to ''tully'' (triaD. Under
the circumstances the best defense is
to claim that the detective is lob.
bing' them, that is swearing their
liberty or life away. The warden Of
the penitentiary is '.head
screw" and the others are sub
ordinate screws" Most thieves be-
lieve that they wouldn't have been
caught if they had been alone in jobs
or if they hadn't been associating with
some unlucky person, said unlucky
person being JONAH" an
application OF biblical incident
in rather unexpected place,
for thieves don't often attend the "gos-
pei mills" where the Bible is expound-
ed by the 'patter coves" or ''steeple
guys" 1t is written that all men shall
die, but the ''crook" does not. He
"croaks" or gets crooked" (killed),
and after his 'tstiff'' has been duly
walked he is taken out and planted
by his pals, who afterward speak OF
him, if regretfully, as engaged in the
cheerful and beneficial occupation Of
pushing Clouds or, if he was unpop-
ular, as "doing his long time Others
have worse fate still. They become
"buggy" and are sent to the .'bug
house" Gnsane asylum). Others
"double up (getmarried) and square
it, (reform), but they are only about
A per cent.
The samples above are but few. A
large book, indeed, would be com.
plete slang dictionary. Several Of
these have been published at various
times, and those who desire to learn
how to talk "under cover" can pursue
these studies further by perusing one
OF those valuable volumes. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
DENYING EARTHQUAKES.
Methods Of Constructing Houses CapaI
OF Resisting Heavy Upheayals,

Methods of Constructing Houses Capable
of Resisting Heavy Upheavals.
A curious paper was read by Prof.
Milne at a meeting of the chronological
Society Of Toxic, reporting results OBJ
tanned from seismic survey of the
ground in the immediate neighborhood
of his house, with the view to discover,
if possible, the best method Of con-
structing houses or buildings capable
OF resisting earthquakes, so as to sus-
tain the least damage in themselves.
Three different ways appear to have
been suggested, by which it was
thought probable that the buildings
would escape the effects Of the motion
produced by the earthquake wave. Tho
first was to make a careful seismic sur
vey of the ground, and after that. to
select spot where there would be
relatively but little motion-though
how this desirable result was to be OBJ
tanned we are not informed. The Sec
ond plan was to build in deep
pit, the walls not touching the
sides OF the pit; but by what
means this was to save the
house, it is difficult to see, as, If an
earth-wave passed over the place, the
pit itself as well as the house would
necessarily be effected. Athird method
is still proposed. and that is, where the
ground is soft. a light, one storied
house should be constructed of either
wood or iron. which should be rested
on layer Of cast-iron shot-an idea,
possibly, to allow the house to move
over the shot from right to left or back
ward and forward, and SO escape being
ovcrthrown. But still, very heavy
wave would upheave, not the house
and its foundation only, but the whole
space of the earth round about 1t; and
if that was so, the house, shot, pit,
and all, must surely be overthrow in
q heap together. The theory, how
ever, is both curious and interesting,
and may be well worth the examine
ton and consideration Of the scientific
world, in spite Of the difficulties and
doubts which appear to surround the
question. - Chambers journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
WHY CELERY NEEDS SALT.
Twelve Reasons by the Representative
Young Women of America.

| Twelve Reasons by the Representative
Young Women Of America,
1t was class of young ladies from
various OF our principal cities, ETC., in
a prominent seminary that might OF
might not be Vassar, and the examina.
ton was in writing. The question was,
"Why does the vegetable celery require
so much more salt when it is eaten
than any other garden product?" And
here are the answers:
l. Miss Cultura Bostoniensis-.Be-
cause the atoms which enter into the
composition of this representative of
the genus apium gravolens have a re-
pellant effect on any particles of saline
matter that may occupy contiguous
proximity, and their non-compatibility
produces deprivation that can only
be supplied by subsequent manipula-
ton in recepticale Sails"
2. Miss Patrissima Philadelphia
Because the ancestral plant did not
have salt enough to transmit the flavor
10 tne younger members OF the
family"
8. Miss Putonairs Washington-"Be-
cause it did not choose to absorb any
saint from the vulgar herd of particles
in the surrounding EARTH"
4. Miss Interesta New YORKSHIRE
cause the salt was squeezed out before
it got in, like Broadway dividend"
5. Mile. La File de St. Louis-..be-
cause whatever salt it had went some-
where else"
6. Miss Frigidus Montreal-"I does
not; frozen turnips take more
z. Miss Inahurria Chicagoana-"Be-
cause it's eaten before it's grown"
8. Miss Stayathoma Cincinnatiensis
it chose to 60 without
9. Miss Concisa Omaha-.Because
it's so fresh"
10. Miss Contradicta San Francisco
it doesn't"
II. Miss Countriani Vermont
Cause it's good"
IL Miss Pankina Connecticuto-
Does it?"-Judge.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
HENRY /. BIOSSAT, Business MANAGE
COULDN'T DODGE HIS FATE.
.These railroad disasters my courage Germ,

These railroad disasters my courage o'ermas.
ter"
Said he, II won't ride on the train"
Sol started a-walking, and carelessly talk
ing,
Fell and broke alarge hole in his brain.
won't ride on a bicycle, and fall like an
icicle,
No one-wheeled machine for this nibs."
Then wheelman named Snyder, bicycle
rider,
Rode against him and smashed in his ribs.
Then the surgeons inspected his backbone
DETECTED,
Found his heart had been seriously hit;
But calm Mr.. Synder, the bicycle rider,
Why he wasn't injured bit
" An ocean excursions dangerous diversion,
Embark on ship and you're dead"
Then an earthquake came rumbling, his house
fell a-crumbling
And laundering down on his head
"fll join no congregation; great conflagra-
ton
May burn down church In minute"
And that night dire, unQuenchable fire,
Burned down his own house and him in Il.
-IEd-Bits.